[fpc-pascal] Fingerprinting operation of a program

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Henry Vermaak wrote:
> On 18 February 2011 18:19, Mark Morgan Lloyd
> <markMLl.fpc-pascal at telemetry.co.uk> wrote:
>> I need to trace through a program, running on two different systems which
>> might or might not have the same OS, in order to find out where it's
>> failing.
>>
>> Before I start giving myself a gdb refresher course or manually inserting
>> trace messages, is there any way that I can extract a trace of procedure
>> entry/exits, preferably identified by name rather than by address, using
>> e.g. profiling hooks?
> 
> Valgrind is probably what you need.  It doesn't work on windows, but
> people use it with wine.

Thanks Henry and Sven. I suspect that both FPP and Valgrind will end up 
being a substantial amount of work for a one-off problem... FPP in 
particular since it requires Lazarus to build but I'm trying to debug 
part of the Lazarus build process (bug 0018600).

I'm about to start inserting debug messages. I might be some time.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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